[mythtv-users] Minimal software configuration for MythTV

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/10/2007 10:23 AM, Marcos Iuato wrote:
> Is it possible not to use software encoder when recording live tv or 
> pvr? Becouse if I record with raw format it could save cpu and memory 
> but I know it would generate bigger files, for me I prefer having bigger 
> files with less usage of cpu and memory.
>   

MPEG-2 gives about 20 to 30 times compression.  MPEG-4 can give even 
higher compression ratios.  Without encoding, NTSC video would take at 
least 30GiB/hr and PAL would take more like 40GiB/hr.

Mike